Time Still Turns the Pages

Time Still Turns the Pages (年少日記, 2023) — a Hong Kong drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Cheuk Yee-Kim's debut feature follows Cheng, a middle school teacher who finds an anonymous note left in his classroom — a note that reads like a goodbye. The school administration wants to keep it quiet.

Cheng doesn't. His search for the note's author pulls him back into memories he had buried: a father who demanded perfection, a brother no one reached in time. Around him, his marriage is falling apart and his dying father waits in a hospital bed, but the words won't come. At 95 minutes, the film holds all of this without melodrama, and that restraint is what makes it land.

Watch Time Still Turns the Pages (2023) online on iFILM.